Hyperion
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Cinquecento captures the work's meditative quality to profound effect, the all-male vocal ensemble creating an aptly plangent sonority and a tone of high seriousness. Using just six singers,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 8 - Medtner
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The New Budapest Quartet, Alexander Lazarev
For Dmitri Alexeev the First Concerto is Medtner's masterpiece, an argument he sustains in a performance of superb eloquence and discretion.
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War Silence - Rare Italian Piano Concertos
Roberto Prosseda (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nir Kabaretti
The six sections [of the Dallapiccola] fall into two comparably weighted movements, their highlights a plaintive ‘Ripresa’ and a limpid ‘Notturno’ that outline an artless yet searching naivety... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Concerto
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Cherish this flowing collection of near-masterpieces, played with the utmost sensitivity and panache by the Gaudiers and the always wonderful Susan Tomes. —
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This excellent series continues with a selection performed exquisitely by soprano Julia Kleiter. At the programme’s heart are Liszt’s unmissable four settings of Victor Hugo. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 82, 202 & 208
Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Simon Davis (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The Parley of Instruments, The Taverner Players, Andrew Parrott, Roy Goodman
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 14: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus
Leslie Howard (piano)
The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date —
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Tallis: Ave, Dei patris filia
Recommended& other sacred music
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
The sprawling majesty of Thomas Tallis’s Ave, Dei patris filia is brought to startling life here by both the fine voices of the Cardinall’s Musick and the scholarly detective work of David Allinson...Canticles,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 4: Pfitzner
Alban Gerhardt (cello), with Gergana Gergova (violin)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Sebastian Weigle
Gerhardt holds it all together with his sustained singing lines, while Weigle and his Berlin band provide vividly pointillist backing. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 14 - Litolff
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
